Technorati famously has some problemsindexing blogs .I believe that a lot of these issues may come down to somethingsimple: Technorati's real problem is that it predates the syndicationfeed revolution.

Post syndication revolution blog search engines (like GoogleBlogsearch , Feedster , IceRocket ,and Bloglines ) are actually syndicationfeed search engines . They operate by finding feeds and mining them forthe entries (or at least URLs to the entries, if your feed has partialtext).

But before the syndication revolution there were no widespreadsyndication

It's time for another weekly spam summary. First, let's look at Hotmail,which turns out to be running roughly the same as last week :

• no messages accepted.
• 12 messages rejected because they came from non-Hotmail emailaddresses.
• 49 messages sent to our spamtraps.
• 2 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hitour spamtraps.
• 6 messages refused due to their origin IP address (two in theSBL, one in each of the XBL and the CBL, one from Nigeria,

Yesterday's tracing made one particular bitof DWiki 's page rendering pop out at me; almost 40% of the time forthe page was going just to create the '(Previous | Next)' links at thebottom.

Because DWiki is entirely filesystem based, its 'metadata' is the stateof the filesystem. Thus, creating the previous and next links requireswalking WanderingThoughts ' directory hierarchy to find out the order ofthe entries. Once I saw the times, I immediately started wondering if I